IMPORTANT NOTE: Please check the location of your event, as we host programming in multiple locations. We cannot delay launch or refund tickets if you arrive at the wrong spot.

  • Guided Sunset Paddle

    Specialty Guided Tour
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Join the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club for a secret, one of a kind, personal sunset cruise in canoes above Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal.

  • The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal: An On-Water Musical

    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal: An On-Water Musical
    400 years of displacement, pollution, and revolution. She... Remembers... Everything...
    Join the Gowanus Dredgers for this one-of-a-kind theater experience! We have two tiers of tickets, from the shore or via canoe, where you'll get to paddle around our performers on floating stages. This is a show not to be missed. 

  • The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal: An On-Water Musical [Saturday]

    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal: An On-Water Musical
    400 years of displacement, pollution, and revolution. She... Remembers... Everything...
    Join the Gowanus Dredgers for this one-of-a-kind theater experience! We have two tiers of tickets, from the shore or via canoe, where you'll get to paddle around our performers on floating stages. This is a show not to be missed. 

  • Free Walk-Up Paddling

    Walk-Up Paddles
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our floating docks at the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker Launch Site!  Limited to the mouth of the Gowanus Canal to 9th Street and Free (donations encouraged). Please note, this activity is NOT at our 2nd St Boathouse. Bring a friend and we'll outfit you with equipment and give […]

  • Walk-Up Paddling from the 2nd St. Boathouse

    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    We're so excited to say we are hosting walk-up paddling AT THE MAIN BOATHOUSE!!!! Saturday September 7th!!! WOOO!!!
    COME PADDLE! Let's show everyone how great it is to have access to the head of the canal!!! Help support our water access advocacy by using the canal and bringing friends!!

  • Full Moon Gowanus Voyage – September

    Specialty Guided Tour
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Join our Crew on a sunset and full-moon guided adventure!! Meet at the the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, at the end of 19th St / off 3rd Ave, 11232 - NOT our 2nd St. boathouse. Tickets required, available via eventbrite.

  • September Monthly Meeting & Paddle

    Monthly Meeting
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Socialize with the Dredgers at our BUNKER (2 19th St, off of 3rd Ave) to discuss the latest updates on Gowanus and get involved.  We continue to plan new and fun events on our shoreline and waterway.  The agenda will include: updates on summer plans for canoeing Gowanus Bay and more collaboration with other recreational organizations […]

  • Free Walk-Up Paddling From 2nd St.

    Walk-Up Paddles
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    COME PADDLE! Let’s show everyone how great it is to have access to the head of the canal! Help support our water access advocacy by using the canal and bringing friends! Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our 2nd St. Dock. Limited to the head of the canal to the floating boom at 3rd.

  • Guided Sunset Paddle

    Specialty Guided Tour
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Join the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club for a secret, one of a kind, personal sunset cruise in canoes above Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal.

  • Unheard-of + The Gowanus Dredgers Present: Shifting Haze

    Unheard-of Ensemble Cultural Ecologies Series
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    The last performance of the 2024 Cultural Ecologies season features emerging composers at the cutting edge of music and technology from composers Erich Barganier, Han Geul Lee, Catherine Phang, Alyssa Wixson, and Annie Nikunen, each developing new multimedia works for the ensemble. This performance takes place during climate week NYC!

  • 8th Annual Gowanus Dawn Reading

    Ninth Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal 9th Street & The Canal, Brooklyn, NY

    Our 8th annual Gowanus Dawn Reading! We’ll proclaim poetry from Julian Talamantez Brolaski's "gowanus atropolis" in canoes on the Gowanus Canal!